This one goes out to Gomichan (God bless Google cache)

A while back (6/25/05) decided to throw their creators hat into the ring on the subject of Fanfiction. At the time I read through the ensuing discussion as a bit of a neophyte in the matter. Since then though, I have been doing some digging into the phenomena and I ran across the an interesting, sourced article on the subject. So I am linking it here.
http://whoosh.org/issue62/ecks2.html

It’s definitely an intelligent look at the medium, and is pretty well researched.

Besides…I figured I would post mention of it here instead of Riverside HQ…Whenever FanFic discussions startup a flamewar seems to follow soon after….;)